Photograph holder and exhibitor.



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- I APPLICATION FILED JUNE 13, 100B; I

918,040, I Patented Apr. 13, 1909 I .80 I WITNESSES 16 INVENTOH ATTORNE Y.

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EMANUEL HALPERN, OF HARRISON, NEW YORK.

PHGTOGRAPH HOLDER AND EXHIBITOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 13, 1909.

Application filed June 13, 1908. Serial No. 438,253.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMANUEL I-IALPERA', a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Harrison, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Photograph Iiolders and Exhibitors, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide improved and convenient means for containing and protecting photographs; to secure a construction whereby the photo graph, or any one of them desired, may be viewed with great distinctness and clearness, and yet without being subjected to handling and wear while being so viewed; to secure a simple and convenient construcrich, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures, Figure 1. is a perspective view of my improved photograph holder and exhibitor in use; Fig. 2 is a top edge view of the device with certain end doors in open position, and Fig. 8 is an end view of the same; Fig. is a horizontai section taken on line t---=i, Fig. 1. looking in the direction indicated by the arrow; Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section takenon line 5-5, Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow, and Fig. 6 is a vertical transverse section on line 66, Fig. 2, of a certain reflector and door combined.

In said drawings, 10 indicates an easel of any suitable or ordinary construction adapted to hold my improved photograph holder and exhibitor in upright position as shown in Fig. 1.

The photograph holder and exhibitor itself I have shown made up in the form of a large book or album, although this is only for the sake for external appearance and the device might be made in any other form which would adapt it to the purposes for which it is used. The body portion or walls may be made of wood, card-board, sheet metal or any other suitable material, and a hollow or chambered interior is provided thereby as hereinafter more fully described. Intermediate of the ends of the said body portion are vertical partitions 12 and 13, substantially parallel thereto and to each other, and providing between themselves and the said end walls, respectively, sections of the chamber, which are each again divided by horizontal longitudinal partitions lat into an upper compartment 15) for containing battery or dry cell. Access to both these lower compartment- 16 adapted to receive a compartments at each end of the body portion 11 is provided by hinging the end wall 17 at one ed e, as at l8, so that it serves as a door, and placing upon the said door a catch 19 of any common and well-known construction adapted to hold the door shut.

The middle division of the chamber of the body part 11, or the division between the two partitions l2 and 13, provides at its upper portion a chamber 20 in which individual photographs are to be exhibited as desired. To this end, a rest or support 21 is upon one side wall of the exhibiting chamber and serves to hold the photograph being viewed in suitably upright position. In the opposite wall of said exhibiting chamber is an aperture 22 in which is mounted a magnifying lens 23, whereby the observer as indicated in Fig. 1 views the photograph through said lens and beholds it with great clearness and distinctness. This clearness and distinctness is increased and enhanced by forming the top of the exhibiting chamber as a door 24: hinged at one longitudinal edge, as 25 in Fig. 6, and having at its other edge a suitable catch and finger piece 26. This door enables the photographs to be inserted in place as they are exhibited, and furthermore the inner surface of said door provides a mirror or reflector 27, which can be adjusted to any desired angle, by reason of its hinging, to light the interior of the exhibiting chamber 20 and more particularly the photograph therein. For securing the reflector in any position to which it is thus adjusted, it is preferably connected to the body portion of the device by a jointed brace or stay 28, which may either work with sufficient friction to hold the reflector as adjusted or be provided with a set screw, as is common and well-known in the art of such braces or stays. Any other suitable stay means could be employed instead of those specifically shown and described.

In using the improved device which con stitutes my invention, by good daylight, the reflector 27 will be adjusted to substantially the position shown in Fig. 1, where the line and storing photographs and a- Correction in Letters Patent No. 918,040.

:0 indicates the course of a ray of light reflected by such door 2i onto the photograph.

In order to enable my holder and exhibitor to be used in the evening or when light is poor, I prefer to provide in the exhibiting chamber 20 an electric light or lights, as shown at 29 in the drawings, and which is connected by wires 30 with battery cells 31, 31 arranged in the compartments 16, 16. This light is shown in the drawings as mo'unted upon a partition 32 which forms beneath it a passageway for the said wires 30, but obviously any other arrangement of i the lights could be employed as desired. In

the use of such artificial light, the door 2- would be arranged at a diiferent angle from that shown in Fig. l, in order to properly reflect onto the photograph, and preferably such position would be a closed one in order to prevent the undue escape and loss of light from the exhibiting chamber.

Various modifications in the precise details of my improved photograph holder and exhibitor can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting myself by positive descriptive terms herein employed except as the state of the art may require.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

1. In a photograph holder and exhibitor, the combination of a body portion providing an interior chamber, partitions dividing said chamber into end picture storage compartments and a middle picture exhibiting chamber, outside doors for said storage compartments, means for holding a photograph in said exhibiting chamber, a lens mounted in one side wall of said exhibiting chamber and exposed from the outside of the body portion. a movable section in the top wall oi said middle exhibiting chamber, a mirror upon the inner surface of said movable section. means for adjusting said movable section to different positions and holding it there independent of the said end picture storage compartments and their doors, and a separable support for said body portion.

In a photograph holder and exhibitor, the combination of a body portion providing an interior chamber, partitions dividing said chamber into photograph storage compartments battery compartments and an exhibiting chamber. outside doors to said compartments, means for supporting aphotograph in said exhibiting chamber, a lens mounted in the wall of said chamber and exposed from the outside of the body por tion, a mirror upon the inner side of the door of said exhibiting chamber, means for holding said door in position, an electric lamp in said exhibiting chamber, and means in said batter) compartments for supplying energy to said lamp.

EMANUEL H ALPERN.

In the presence of RUSSELL BI. Evnmc'r'r, ETI-IEL B. REED.

It is hereby certified that the residence of the patentee in Letters Patent No. 918,040,

granted April 13, 1909, upon the application of Emanuel Halpern, for an improvement in Photograph Holders and Exhibitors, was erroneously written and printed Harrison, New York, whereas said residence should have been written and printed Harrison, New Jersey; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the latent OHiee.

Signed and sealed this 4th day of May, A. D., 1909.

[SEAL] C. C. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 918,040.

:0 indicates the course of a ray of light reflected by such door 2i onto the photograph.

In order to enable my holder and exhibitor to be used in the evening or when light is poor, I prefer to provide in the exhibiting chamber 20 an electric light or lights, as shown at 29 in the drawings, and which is connected by wires 30 with battery cells 31, 31 arranged in the compartments 16, 16. This light is shown in the drawings as mo'unted upon a partition 32 which forms beneath it a passageway for the said wires 30, but obviously any other arrangement of i the lights could be employed as desired. In

the use of such artificial light, the door 2- would be arranged at a diiferent angle from that shown in Fig. l, in order to properly reflect onto the photograph, and preferably such position would be a closed one in order to prevent the undue escape and loss of light from the exhibiting chamber.

Various modifications in the precise details of my improved photograph holder and exhibitor can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting myself by positive descriptive terms herein employed except as the state of the art may require.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

1. In a photograph holder and exhibitor, the combination of a body portion providing an interior chamber, partitions dividing said chamber into end picture storage compartments and a middle picture exhibiting chamber, outside doors for said storage compartments, means for holding a photograph in said exhibiting chamber, a lens mounted in one side wall of said exhibiting chamber and exposed from the outside of the body portion. a movable section in the top wall oi said middle exhibiting chamber, a mirror upon the inner surface of said movable section. means for adjusting said movable section to different positions and holding it there independent of the said end picture storage compartments and their doors, and a separable support for said body portion.

In a photograph holder and exhibitor, the combination of a body portion providing an interior chamber, partitions dividing said chamber into photograph storage compartments battery compartments and an exhibiting chamber. outside doors to said compartments, means for supporting aphotograph in said exhibiting chamber, a lens mounted in the wall of said chamber and exposed from the outside of the body por tion, a mirror upon the inner side of the door of said exhibiting chamber, means for holding said door in position, an electric lamp in said exhibiting chamber, and means in said batter) compartments for supplying energy to said lamp.

EMANUEL H ALPERN.

In the presence of RUSSELL BI. Evnmc'r'r, ETI-IEL B. REED.

It is hereby certified that the residence of the patentee in Letters Patent No. 918,040,

granted April 13, 1909, upon the application of Emanuel Halpern, for an improvement in Photograph Holders and Exhibitors, was erroneously written and printed Harrison, New York, whereas said residence should have been written and printed Harrison, New Jersey; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the latent OHiee.

Signed and sealed this 4th day of May, A. D., 1909.

[SEAL] C. C. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 918,040.

Harrison, New York, whereas said residence should have been written and printed Harrison, New Jersey; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this c0r- Signed and sealed this 4th day of May, A. D., 1909.

[SEAL] C. O. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

